It is a collection of some of his songs performed by various artists, including Stevie Wonder, Mary J Blige, Usher, Beyoncé, Donna Summer, Alicia Keys, Elton John, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin and more. In September 2005 the album So Amazing: An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross was released. Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, sung at his funeral. Two years earlier he had suffered a severe stroke at his home in New York, and was in a coma for two months. Luther Vandross received an American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist and a nomination for Favorite Soul/R&B Album for Give Me The Reason in 1985. Vandross died on 1 July 2005 from a heart attack, at the age of just 54. and around the world, but he also took charge of his music creatively, writing or co-writing most of his songs and arranging and producing his records.
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Not only did he score a series of multi-million-selling albums containing chart-topping hit singles and perform sold-out tours of the U.S. 2000 examines the use of gendered lyrics and sexuality in cover songs by Luther Vandross. Luther Vandross was one of the most successful R&B artists of the 1980s and 90s. The other four songs are odds and ends, including a previously unreleased live duet on. He won his second the following year, when “Power of Love/Love Power” also took home the award for “Best R&B Song”.īy the end of his career he had amassed eight, as well as a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Super Bowl half-time show in 1997 and eight Billboard top 10 albums. Teaching Tools from American Idol to YouTube Nicole Biamonte. Luther Vandross only recorded one Christmas album in his lifetime, so it's not a surprise that the entirety of the ten-song 1995 album This Is Christmas is on this 14-track 2012 compilation, The Classic Christmas Album. Vandross won his first Grammy award for “Best Male R&B Vocal Performance” in 1991. Known by many as the “Velvet Voice”, some of his other hit singles include “Here and Now”, “Any Love”, “Power of Love/Love Power”, “I Can Make it Better” and “For You to Love”.